Top 100 Graphic Novels: March 2016

Rick faces questions about his leadership when the Whisperers attack in Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead Volume 25: No Turning Back from Image Comics, the best-selling graphic novel of March.

In total, Image had five titles in the top ten including Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls Volume 1 at #2, Rick Remender and Sean Murphy's Tokyo Ghost Volume 1 at #4, Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley's Beauty Volume 1 at #6, and Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta's East of West Volume 5 at #7.

Marvel Comics had two titles in the top ten — Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Civil War at #3 and Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic's Secret Wars at #8.

DC Entertainment also had two titles in the top ten — Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman Volume 7: Endgame at #5 and Snyder and Capullo's Batman Volume 8: Superheavy at #9.

Rounding out the top ten, Dark Horse Comics' Avatar the Last Airbender Volume 12: Smoke and Shadow Part 3 ranked #10.

TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in March 2016

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Data for Diamond’s sales charts — which includes the monthly market shares and all top product charts — are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from sales made to thousands of comic book specialty shops located in North America and around the world.  Additional sales made to online merchants and other specialty stores may be included as well.

Unit and dollar market shares are calculated based upon orders for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines invoiced and shipped to Diamond customers during any given month, which comprises pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable. Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

About the Diamond Sales Index: The Sales Index of selected monthly Best Seller Charts is presented as a comparative tool for retailers and publishers. It presents Diamond’s monthly sales for individual titles in relation to Diamond’s total sales for the issue of DC Comics' monthly Batman comic book. (Batman is used as the control title – with a value of 100 – because sales of Batman usually remain relatively stable.) This allows for easy comparison to other titles and helps retailers gauge their orders for all other titles. This formula is only a guide, other factors may impact a titles’ ability to sell in certain locations and clientele.